self-conscious - Story 126489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the last wall of the house crumbled, a collective gasp arose from the small crowd. Kevin, however, found himself completely silent. He couldn't speak, he couldn't move. He felt suddenly locked inside himself.

He’d arrived later than everyone else, hoping to avoid the worst of the spectacle, but now the noise, the dust, the emptiness of the space around him overwhelmed him. The silence was deafening.

He blinked hard, willing himself not to cry, not to show any sign of weakness. He just wanted to disappear. He felt like everyone was watching him.

Emotion: self-conscious

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.03 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.52

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-conscious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 self-conscious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-conscious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-conscious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.307
`C`	0.298
`ness`	0.273
`尴尬`	0.263
`😶`	0.242

Suppressed:

`que`	-0.399
`de`	-0.266
`triumphant`	-0.266
`আনন্দের`	-0.247
`ايا`	-0.238